I have never seen anybody talk or brew like this (youtube vid)

[fat x nub]

So whn I am bored i like to watch others brew and see what their setup is and how they go abut doing everything. I was watching this video and his way was very new to me. I have made 4 batches so far but i have been talking to the people at my two LHBS and have been on this forum a lot. I have never seen or heard of anybody take a kilo of sugar and add it to the boil kettle. I know that DME is full of sugar but it also has barley in it...right? I am not saying this guy is wrong cuz he mentions that he has been brewing for 20 years....but is this the method a lot of people use?? [ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=sAJKWCdaPq4&feature=related[/ame]

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Do a forum search for "craigtube." This guy has been discussed (and ridiculed) at GREAT length. His techniques are pretty crude (and uncommon), but he sure does like the results.

 

[fat x nub]

Do a forum search for "craigtube." This guy has been discussed (and ridiculed) at GREAT length. His techniques are pretty crude (and uncommon), but he sure does like the results.

aight...thanks

 

[the_bird]

You know what? It works for him. This the best way to make beer? Probably not, but we're not in a competition.

 

[kbrewer1]

This is the first time I've seen this...and I didn't truly realize how hooked into this hobby I was until I noticed my jaw dropped every few seconds in disbelief.

 

[fat x nub]

You know what? It works for him. This the best way to make beer? Probably not, but we're not in a competition.

I am not saying this guy is wrong

I was just interested in a new brewing style i haven't seen before. It was new to me and just wanted to know what others thought about it and who else brewed like this. I am not puttig this guy down...if he was making poopy beer he wouldn't make it for 20 years.

This is the first time I've seen this...and I didn't truly realize how hooked into this hobby I was until I noticed my jaw dropped every few seconds in disbelief.

haha...it seemed a bit odd to me too....but if its workin for him good. But i just dont think that there will be much flavor to it. I could be wrong...im just guessing.

 

[Tankard]

I'm not going to knock the guy either. I'm not going to pretend my methodology is so sound that I can dismiss someone elses. It's not the way I do it, but I doubt he'd still be a homebrewer if he never ended up with a good product in 20 years.

 

[DeathBrewer]

hey, nothing wrong with cider beer. i put malt extract in my last apfelwein

 

[fat x nub]

hey, nothing wrong with cider beer. i put malt extract in my last apfelwein

so thats what he is doing...thanks Uncle Death

 

[Kauai_Kahuna]

OK, I started extract brewing around 15 years ago, and at the time his process was state of the art.
You actually could get "PRE-HOPPED" malt extract, and did not have to use hops that looked like brown spoiled dog poo, and extract that most likely sat in the store for 3 years before you bought it. Oh, and brewing yeast - What is this new fangled liquid stuff, if bread yeast was good enough for my grand-daddy, and wild yeast good enough for people running around naked who am I to change tradition.
Read the first edition of "The Joy of Homebrewing" and for most people that was like a tour of a microbrewery. In those dark ages you were high tech if you used a balloon or condom to cover the fermention "converted gas tank".
OK, I'm not really old, I just remember how it was done back then by most people. You have to remember it was illegal to homebrew until Jimmy Carter (I know-WHO) allowed the law to change in most places. It still is illegal in some places.

 

[Coastarine]

I know that DME is full of sugar but it also has barley in it...right?

Just to clarify this, DME IS sugar, but there are lots of different kinds of sugar. DME is mostly maltose, which comes from malted barley.

 

[Yooper]

Just to clarify this, DME IS sugar, but there are lots of different kinds of sugar. DME is mostly maltose, which comes from malted barley.

DME is spray-dried malted barley syrup. 100% barley, nothing else added. So, yes, the sugar in it is mostly maltose, but it's more than just the sugar from the malt.

 

[pickles]

i just love his singing videos

 

[Theblindguy]

There is a guy that works with me that drinks nothing but warm milwakees best. He will not drink anything else and even seems to get upset when offered anything else. I assume him and Craigtube are cut from the same cloth in this fashion...they simply like what they like even if it tastes horrible to the rest of the beer world. Heck, I have a group of friends that stared at me like I was an alien when I gave away my skunked Heineken at a party. They treat that swill like its the nectar from Mount Olympus.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

He is essentially doing the Old Style "Kit and Kilo".

A method of brewing that has given homebrew a large amount of "flack". The result is cidery and most likely laden with fusels for that Ohh so wonderful, headsplitting buzz.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Here's yet another method

[ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=FDPrl50RxeU[/ame]


Neither are something that I would do or ever recommend to anyone, but to each their own I guess.

Now let me go get my popcorn to watch the craigtube carnage that is sure to ensue.

 

[Revvy]

Here's yet another method

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FDPrl50RxeU


Neither are something that I would do or ever recommend to anyone, but to each their own I guess.

Now let me go get my popcorn to watch the craigtube carnage that is sure to ensue.

GROANNNNNNN...hmmm I haven't watched craigtube in awhile...but at least HE doesn't drink from the bottle like this guy...

*head explodes*

{Edit} I just watched his bottling video.....He does have a cool selection of hydrometers including a nice one his dad used to use...

{Edit II} I just watched Craigtubes sanitzation video....ugh. He rinses after....

And what's with both of them using sodium metabisulfite?...I thought that was used to halt fermentation not used as asaitizer.

Or is using that to sanitize big with the winemakers?

 

[Brakeman_Brewing]

<cue Air Supply music here>

 

[Displaced MassHole]

You have to remember it was illegal to homebrew until Jimmy Carter (I know-WHO) allowed the law to change in most places. It still is illegal in some places.

Where is it still illegal to homebrew?

 

[Laurel]

Where is it still illegal to homebrew?

Alabama, Utah, I think Georgia and another state.

 

[Revvy]

Arkansas as well....

 

[ohiobrewtus]

I believe that Oklahoma is the other one.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Arkansas as well....

It's legal in Arkansas.

Illiegal (or no legal provision implicitly allowing it) in Alabama, Utah, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Mississpippi.

 

[fat x nub]

Alabama, Utah, I think Georgia and another state.

I live in Georgia and its legal to homebrew...they have 2 LHBS within a 15 mile radius from me. And Alabama i hear its legal

 

[Laurel]

lol. ok, well then I'm off. I remember reading about it in another thread, and I knew it was one of the "A" states in the south.

Anyway. It's illegal in some states still.

 

[noisy123]

The link below discusses this a bit.
Homebrew Illegal

One of the comments notes that while making homebrew is illegal, the supplies for homebrew are not. Maybe that's how LHBS 's get by in these places.

 

[Alamo_Beer]

What the hell is the A-D-J-U-C-T that he's talking about??

 

[ohiobrewtus]

What the hell is the A-D-J-U-C-T that he's talking about??

More sugar, of course. Because when 6.5 cups of table sugar isn't enough, you need to add 1# of liquid dextrose.

 

[Laurel]

But it makes the head better!

 

[Theblindguy]

I live in Georgia as well and it is Legal.